2008 Woodie Awards
This day in history
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: News
1670 The Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles II.
1863 Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.
1890 The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1936 "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1945 The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
1957 Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1960 Caryl Chessman, who became a best-selling author while on death row for kidnapping, robbery and sexual offenses, was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.
1965 Intelsat 1, also known as the Early Bird satellite, was first used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1972 After serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77.
1998 President Clinton and congressional Republicans lambasted the Internal Revenue Service and promised more reforms to prevent future abuses by the agency.
2007 Bush declared al-Qaida "public enemy No. 1 in Iraq."
- Compiled by The Associated Press
1863 Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.
1890 The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1936 "Peter and the Wolf," a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1945 The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
1957 Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1960 Caryl Chessman, who became a best-selling author while on death row for kidnapping, robbery and sexual offenses, was executed at San Quentin Prison in California.
1965 Intelsat 1, also known as the Early Bird satellite, was first used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1972 After serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover died in Washington at age 77.
1998 President Clinton and congressional Republicans lambasted the Internal Revenue Service and promised more reforms to prevent future abuses by the agency.
2007 Bush declared al-Qaida "public enemy No. 1 in Iraq."
- Compiled by The Associated Press
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